There is a widely held belief that "maker" hardware such as the Raspberry Pi is disdained by the professional community who wouldn't be seen dead loading code onto an "amateur" piece of hardware. Well this might not be quite true.

Cohere, a startup which is building natural language processing tools and models based on the breakthrough AI technology of Transformers, has raised funding of over $40 Million, including investments by Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li.

If you are interested in User experience and the psychological interface between man and computer technology, edX has two Professional Certificates - one on Human-Computer Interaction, the other on Human-Robot Interaction.

Today JetBrains is announcing an early access program for a new IDE for data scientists. DataSpell is described as offering "a productive developer environment for data science professionals who are actively involved in exploratory data analysis and prototyping machine learning models."

A browser extension and two free courses, "Machine Learning with Graphs" from Stanford and "Introduction to Deep Learning" by Sebastian Raschka are three excellent resources for mastering Machine Learning.

The Xamarin Community Toolkit team has announced two new .NET MAUI-compatible versions of the toolkit, a toolkit and a markup toolkit. .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Researchers in Google's Brain Team have shared news of breakthroughs they've made in image super-resolution. There are impressive results from using  SR3, a super-resolution diffusion model. Next the team used a cascade approach to  generate high-resolution natural images.

John McCarthy, the man who invented the LISP programming language was born on September 4, 1927 in Boston Massachusetts. He is also remembered as the organizer of the summer workshop at Dartmouth College that is considered to be the founding event of Artificial Intelligence as a field.

You’ve heard it dozens of times before: don’t write your passwords down on a piece of paper, don’t tell anyone your passwords, always use numbers, and so on and so on. You’d think everyone’s gotten password safety rules down by now.

Qt has announced the release of Qt Creator 5, with improvements including experimental support for Clangd as the backend for the C/C++ code model, and some support for building and running applications in Docker containers.

Google Summer of Code is a program for students who want to spend their summer break "flipping bits not burgers". 2021 was the 17th year of the program and back in June 1,286 students, paired with 199 open source organizations, started their 10-week stint of contributing to open source projects. 

Amazon has released Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a new Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database. Amazon says MemoryDB makes it easy and cost-effective to build applications that require microsecond read and single-digit millisecond write performance with data durability and high availability.